The wolf analysed its prey. It was annoyed, its prey kept healing all its wounds. It had faced similar preys that could heal wounds, but it could always overwhelm their regeneration by dealing more heavy damage or instantly killing the prey.
The current prey it was in battle with was different from its previous preys. It could not overwhelm the prey's regeneration with heavy damage, so it concluded on the best outcome.
To instantly kill the prey. It suddenly started charging a lightening orb at the tip of its horn. Tim with his eyes and chest glowing caught sight of the wolf charging its skill.
"No you don't" Tim said, as he dashed to intercept the skill charge. He was not one to give his opponents breathing space or time to charge its skill.
His current speed was greater than his previous speed due to his Empowered State. He raised his sword aiming to intercept the charge and deal damage to the wolf.
SWOOSH
He swung his blade at the wolf with all his might. As the wolf saw the blade descending, it jumped backwards making the blade to strike against the ground.
BOOM
The ground the wolf was standing on previously caved in due to the intense force of the strike. In that moment of destruction, the wolf decided to take advantage of the destruction in the area, and fired the skill it had been charging.
ZING
The accumulated purple lightening shot at Tim. He was ready this time even with the debris blocking his view. He efficiently dodged the skill attack. BOOM!
The wolf's skill struck the tree behind Tim but continued to destroy the trees in the line of path of the first tree struck. The wolf now fully coated with the purple lightening charged at Tim.
At this point already Tim knew all the attack patterns of the purple coated wolves. He dodged the charge.
immediately Tim dodged the wolf, it stopped its charge few meters way from Tim and accelerated towards him aiming to bite off his head, but he also dodged that attack.
This went on for a couple of minutes with Tim accurately dodging all the attacks of the wolf. The wolf suddenly stopped and stared at Tim. It was breathing heavily, and it was low on mana energy already.
Its supposed prey on the other hand was still standing unharmed by its assault. 'It seems like i have exhausted the beast. My reflex and thinking are really boosted in this State I am n right now. I don't think this wolf can hurt me any longer, I should end this" he thought.
Gripping his blade tightly he accelerated at the purple coated wolf. The wolf saw his approach then used the last remaining mana to fully coated its body and in turn charge towards Tim aiming to tear into him.
When they were about 4 meters from each other. Tim suddenly altered his accelerated movement by lifting himself high in the air. It was a battle technique he created personally that made use of even the slightest force to change his trajectory.
With Tim being in his newly formulated Empowered State, the battle technique was utilized in its full capacity.
Now Tim was directly above the wolf. Utilizing his existent momentum, he channelled it and spun himself with his blade. PUICHHH!
The head of the wolf fell to the ground. He had successfully slain the massive wolf. He was proud of his achievement. Suddenly a loud sound reverberated, but it was not a sound Aks3 who was watching the entire battle excitedly could hear. It was a sound coming from his inner palace. CRACK CRACK BOOM!
The shell he created within him shattered after he defeated the wolf, immediately removing him from his Empowered State.
Weakness flooded his body immediately flooded his entire body, he knew he was going to pass out, so he stored his blade in his storage ring and tried to find a safe place, but as he stored his blade, he passed out directly in the middle of the forest.
Immediately he passed out, a beast on a tree 300 meters away from the battle suddenly appeared at the battle scene.
The beast was 8 feet tall with a plain white skin, it had a heavy build of muscles, its paws had metal like nails that could tear common armour with a simple swipe. It was the Saber Liger.
The king of the forest that they were in. 'Huh, this is getting interesting. I have not cast the bait for it, but it found its way to him, impressive. Now finish him off you beast hahaha' Aks 3 demanded within.
The beast walked up to Tim and sniffed him. It picked Tim up with its mouth and started walking back to its hideout, completely ignoring the corpse of the huge purple coated wolf. Possibly the leader of its pack.
'Stupid beast, why are you preserving your food? Kill him now, kill him. Since when does a Saber Liger preserve 'Aks 3cursed out i his mind.
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Close to the forest Tim and Aks 3 entered, a man in all white attire could be seen talking to a man in a well made suit. They were walking towards the forest casually.
"Are you sure we can find the last candidate around here" Bubba asked Xavier the man in the suit.
"Yes, he might not be the strongest recommendation I am bringing this time, but we can work with that. Besides i am more interested in his bloodline. He could be a descendant of another humanoid being." Xavier replied.
"Another humanoid being? Oh, I see is that why you have so much interest in him? Humanoids beings can't be trusted Xavier, their loyalty is not always completely towards Earth 19 "Bubba warned.
Xavier suddenly stopped walking. He looked at Bubba and said with a grin "You don't have to be very cautious all the time you know, you really can take away the fun from everything and anything. This boy that I have in mind owes his life to me.
His life indebted to me and I am just going to cash in on that debt by taking him with me. It is not as if anyone in this lower region of Earth 19 can stop me. "
Bubba wanted to contest what Xavier said, but knowing Xavier for multiple years he knew that whenever Xavier becomes obsessed with someone, it takes a lot to stop Xavier from chasing the obsession.
Xavier's new target had no idea that his life was about to be changed.
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Waking up from his unconsciousness, Tim found himself lying in a pile of bones. 'Ugh, where am I? How long did i pass out? 'he wondered.
He suddenly became angry at himself 'How could I even pass out? I have a possibly infinite regeneration system. I had my full stamina and health after the battle. This does not make sense. Arghhhhhhhhhhh'
He once again entered into his Inner Palace. He looked at the place that housed his shell, the place was empty. 'So, my shell did scatter, well I was more like transferring the damage done to me to the shell, at least that is my theory on how my shell works.
It does not matter now that the shell has been destroyed, I can just make another one. 'he thought.
He started to try to create the shell once more, but immediately he visualised the shell he fell to his knees and screamed "Arghhhhhhhhh Arghhh". He did it while clutching his head.
This went on for about 5 minutes, he was in serious pain. It was as if his brain was being stabbed multiple times with tiny needles. Tears even cascaded his eyes from the pain h felt.
'Why me? I have a regenerative body, then why am i still feeling pain? Is it stress? Or is it the mental strain that came with me maintaining the structure of the shell? Maybe it is due to the mental strain. So, I cannot recover from mental strain yet, this is annoying' Tim concluded.
Throughout his battle in his Empowered State, his brain had to constantly visualise the shell, direct mana energy to where the damage was done on the shell, and flood the shell with excess mana energy to support his enhanced physical capabilities.
He figured that the pain he felt was just the blowback from the stressful mental opportunity he embarked on.
Looking at his surrounding that was littered with bones, he knew that he was in a monster's den. He did not Have his empowered state, so the confidence he had previously in his battle against the wolf was null at this point.
He walked towards where the light source was coming from hoping to discover the exit, but what he saw almost directly threw him to a panic state. He saw 2 Saber Liger's feasting on the corpse of the purple coated wolf he killed before he passed out.